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MT brought his Super Sprint to the off road races in Barstow. I've looked for photos, no luck dammit.
Looked like
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with 33" Firestone Baja 1000s all the way round.
Long travel independent in front and the diff under the chassis.
 
The Munster Koach was introduced in episode 4 on October 15, 1964 as a birthday present for Herman (Fred Gwynne) from Lily (Yvonne De Carlo); in the script she actually picks out two cars from a used car dealer (Diamond Jim), a T-Bucket built by Erv Campbell of Santa Ana, CA. and what appears to be a 1920 Cunningham Funeral Coach and tells him to “take them to a custom builder”. In reality that custom builder was George Barris who provided the Koach in a 21 day deadline. Tom Daniel did the original designs; Tex Smith and Dick Dean reportedly handled the build working from 3 Model T bodies assembled on a hand-made 133″ frame. The final machine is 18 feet long.

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For reference all my 66-74 B body cars and my 2000 extended cab Dakota are 17' long.

Sounds like they actually put some thought into that part of the story line.

That's pretty cool.
 
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